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George H.W. Bush did the same thing. This is the link to an interesting article from Politifact:

www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama...

All these idiotic conspiracy theories perpetuated by right-wing politicians about the 'real' reason Pres. Obama wants to address school children are delusionary musing at the least. They want to have us believe he is going to indoctrinate young minds to convince their parents to buy into socialism, communism, etc. Pres. Obama's advance speech concerns staying in school, studying hard and doing your best - my gawd - how awful is that? How horrible to even suggest such a thing. I'm afraid some of these idiots lost their minds when the republicians lost the election!

[quote]Quote ILuvNY: George H.W. Bush did the same thing. This is the link to an interesting article from Politifact:

www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama... />
I tried to go to this link, but I couldn't...can you post it again? Or give the details of the story?

This is no doubt the dumbest thread I have ever read here!

This so called speech that the President will make will last What? 30 minutes?

People will keep their kids out of school so they don't see this? WTH?..

Why not send your kids to school to see for themselves what our president has to say? Why miss math and reading class?
Why not make this into a sit down dinner time discussion with your family and see what your children think about what they heard?
My guess is they will forget what the even saw on the TV when the recess bell rings.

Right wing.. Left wing.. Middle of the road... The President IS NOT going to brainwash our children! Get a grip people!

Try this link:
politi-fact.net/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/02/republican-party-florida/re... />
I tried it and it works.

They reviewed the study materials but didn't see any mention of controversial issues, let alone any attempt to indoctrinate students in socialism. The pre-K through 6th grade materials said the main ideas of the speech would be "citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty." The materials for high schoolers mention "personal responsibility, goals, persistence."

PolitiFact looks for the truth behind American politics and is a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner.

Why give this nonsense any attention at all? When I heard it I laughed.....at the stupidity of it! Ignorance is not bliss!

I'm not an Obama fan, but as long as he doesn't go into a political agenda, then I see no problem with him encouraging our children to stay in school via a public address. Our children are so far behind some other nations in education that we really need to step up our focus on education if we want our children and grandchildren to compete in a global economy.

We wonder why jobs are going overseas to countries like India....well the reality is that they have people with graduate degrees who are happy to have a job in a call center. So you have a better educated employee who works for less money.... We need to turn things around and have a lot more focus on education in America.

He is just trying to run the country and there are too many others that are making it difficult.

So, REI are you saying that all presidents should be catching hell for talking to students? All presidents who decide to go into an elementary classroom and read to the students should be bashed (prior to the actual reading)? Should parents be allowed to keep their kids home on the day that the president is coming to visit the school and that should be ok? Because yeah, really, who is he? Just the dude that is running the country. We don't like him Johnny, he blows....so you can't meet the most important man in the country.

Stupid logic if you ask me.